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EDITORIAL
P Geavlete, A Plesuvescu, F Stanescu, C Ene, C Mares, C Bulai, R Multescu, B Geavlete
Objective: Ureteroscopy (URS) is a commonly used procedure for the management of ureteral stones. While elective URS has been extensively studied, the literature on emergency URS remains limited. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the efficacy and safeness of URS performed in emergency settings and to determine the ideal candidates for this type of intervention. Methods: Patients who underwent URS for ureteral stones in a single healthcare unit, "Saint John" Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, were included in a retrospective investigation between April 2022 and March 2023...
December 2023: Mædica
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rita de Cássia Vilhena da Silva, Anelize Dada, Sabrina Lucietti Dick, Martina Odebrecht Cavichiolo, Mariana Zanovello, Valdir Cechinel Filho, Priscila de Souza
This research demonstrates the diuretic effect of naringenin, a flavanone aglycone found in citrus, on spontaneously hypertensive female and male rats (SHR). The data reinforces existing literature findings that male SHR exhibits higher systolic blood pressure than age-matched females. Urine volume assessed over 8 hours was lower when obtained from SHR males than females. When these animals were orally treated with different doses of naringenin (0.1 - 1 mg/kg), this increased urinary volume in both genders at the highest dose tested...
February 12, 2024: Chemistry & Biodiversity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mickaël Bobot, Sandrine Lemoine
This article aims to summarize the “Quoi de neuf en néphrologie?” session held at the 2023 SFNDT Congress in Liège and sessions focused on updates regarding IgA nephropathy (NIgA) and ANCA-associated vasculitis. The agenda for the nephrology “Quoi de neuf en néphrologie?” session this year was to review key publications from non-nephrology journals, discussing topics such as nephroprotection, treatment of glomerulopathies (IgA and APOL1), clinical trials on arterial hypertension, urinary lithiasis, and other areas of renal physiology, including glomerular filtration rate estimation...
February 12, 2024: Néphrologie & Thérapeutique
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Incidental pneumoperitoneum due to pneumatosis intestinalis: A rare case of benign pneumoperitoneum.
Souhaib Atri, Mahdi Hammami, Amine Sebai, Aida Zaiem, Sarra Laabidi, Montassar Kacem
INTRODUCTION AND SIGNIFICANCE: Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI), the presence of gas within the intestinal wall, is a rare but significant gastrointestinal condition. It may be associated with underlying gastrointestinal disorders or detected incidentally, posing diagnostic challenges. This article emphasizes the importance of recognizing and managing this condition conservatively when appropriate. CASE PRESENTATION: A previously healthy 40-year-old Caucasian female patient presented with left lumbar fossa pain, initially suggestive of renal colic...
February 8, 2024: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexandra Carina Bandac, Anca Irina Ristescu, Cristian Radu Costache, Razvan Lucian Bobeica, Theodor Florin Pantilimonescu, Pavel Onofrei, Viorel Dragos Radu
INTRODUCTION: Double-J ureteral catheters in patients with ureteral lithiasis undergoing extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) procedures reduce the efficacy of the procedure or have no effect on the stone-free rate. However, the effect of double-J catheters on the patients in whom they were inserted for infected hydronephrosis is not known. The aim of our study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the ESWL procedure in patients with ureteral lithiasis and double-J catheters previously inserted for infected hydronephrosis...
January 2024: Curēus
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Aliou Zabeirou, Adama Saidou, Hama Younssa, Lassey James Didier, Moussa Younoussa, Rachid Sani
The Rigler's Triad consists by three radiological signs, including intestinal obstruction, pneumobilia, and an aberrant gallstone in the bowel. It is an inconstant triad considered being pathognomonic of gallstone ileus. Gallstone ileus is an exceptional complication of cholelithiasis due to the passage of one or more gallstones from the bile ducts into the lumen of the bowel through a biliodigestive fistula. We report the case of an 83-year-old female patient with a history of ischemic heart disease and an asymptomatic large gallstone...
April 2024: Radiology Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Héctor Gallegos, Francisca Sepúlveda, Javier Domínguez, Gerardo Sáez, Elizabeth Galdames, Pablo Troncoso
INTRODUCTION: The finding of an asymptomatic stone in the study of a living kidney donor does not necessarily contraindicate donation, however, there is no consensus on the management of these cases. The use of a graft with lithiasis may represent a risk of recurrence in the remaining kidney in the donor and eventual obstructive complications in the transplanted kidney. The objective of this work is to present the usefulness of ureteroscopy (URS) to resolve lithiasis ex vivo before transplantation...
March 2023: Revista Médica de Chile
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yadong Feng, Yan Liang, Yang Liu, Yinqiu Zhang, Shuaijing Huang, Lihua Ren, Xiaojun Ma, Aijun Zhou, Ruihua Shi
BACKGROUND: Nonradiation, digital cholangioscope (DCS)-assisted endoscopic intervention for cholelithiasis has not been widely performed. For this study, we aimed to report the feasibility, efficacy, and safety of an established DCS-guided lithotomy procedure. METHODS: Data relating to biliary exploration, stone clearance, adverse events, and follow-up were obtained from 289 patients. The choledocholithiasis-related outcomes via the DCS-guided procedure were subsequently compared to those via conventional endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)...
March 2024: Surgical Endoscopy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Valeria Pozzilli, Stefano Toro, Gaia Tabacco, Anda Mihaela Naciu, Andrea Palermo, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Massimo Marano
INTRODUCTION: Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is an invalidating neurological disorder with a complex, largely unknown pathophysiology. While RLS is observed in Parkinson's disease and in renal failure, idiopathic cases are common. Limited reports associate RLS with parathyroid hormone (PTH). This study analyzes a cohort of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and chronic post-surgical hypoparathyroidism (hypo PTH), to investigate RLS prevalence, and associated risk factors. METHODS: Ninety-five patients (54 PHPT, 41 hypo PTH) were consecutively enrolled at the bone metabolism outpatient clinic...
January 29, 2024: Neurological Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jackson da Cruz Machado, Juan Miguel Renteria, Marcelo Medeiros do Nascimento, Antônio Claudio Ahouagi Cunha, Gabriel Marin Vieira, José Eduardo Ferreira Manso
The relationship between urinary tract infection caused by urease-producing bacteria and lithiasis due to struvite stones is well established in the literature. However, there is limited knowledge on whether non-urease producing bacteria can also promote crystallization. In our study, we analyzed the association between urinary lithiasis, other than struvite by crystallography and non-ureolytic bacteria, in 153 patients who underwent surgery for urinary stone. The collected samples were sent for crystallographic analysis and culture...
January 20, 2024: Urolithiasis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gernot Ortner, Bhaskar Kumar Somani, Selcuk Güven, Gerhard Kitzbichler, Olivier Traxer, Guido Giusti, Silvia Proietti, Evangelos Liatsikos, Panagiotis Kallidonis, Amy Krambeck, Ioannis Kartalas Goumas, Mordechai Duvdevani, Guido M Kamphuis, Stefania Ferretti, Laurian Dragos, Khurshid Ghani, Arkadiusz Miernik, Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Helene Jung, Thomas Tailly, Amelia Pietropaolo, Saeed Bin Hamri, Athanasios Papatsoris, Kemal Sarica, Cesare Marco Scoffone, Cecilia Maria Cracco, Etienne Xavier Keller, Otas Durutovic, Sergio Pereira, Thomas R W Herrmann, Udo Nagele, Ali Serdar Gözen, Theodoros Tokas
PURPOSE: To identify laser lithotripsy settings used by experts for specific clinical scenarios and to identify preventive measures to reduce complications. METHODS: After literature research to identify relevant questions, a survey was conducted and sent to laser experts. Participants were asked for preferred laser settings during specific clinical lithotripsy scenarios. Different settings were compared for the reported laser types, and common settings and preventive measures were identified...
January 13, 2024: World Journal of Urology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Saleh Abdelkerim Nedjim, Marcella D C Biyouma, Anteneh Tadesse Kifle, Ouima Justin Dieudonné Ziba, Mahamat Ali Mahamat, Najeem Adedamola Idowu, Orgeness Jasper Mbwambo, Ayun Cassel, Arthur Douglas, Moussa Kalli, Kaleab Habtemichael Gebreselassie, Abdullahi Khalid, Mac Mansou Wadjiri, Rambel Hoby, Emmanuel Muhawenimana, Toto Shareba Marebo, Tagang Titus Ngwa-Ebogo, Mahamane Salissou, Kouldjim Adoumadji, Innocent Nzeyimana, Anani Wencesl Sévérin Odzèbe, Mamadou Ii Barry, Kimassoum Rimtebaye, Ouchemi Choua, Lamine Niang, Berthé Honoré, Saeed Samnakay, Kasonde Bowa, John Lazarus, Noel Coulibaly, Alain Khassim Ndoye, Axel Stephane Nwaha Makon, Rachid Aboutaieb
Our aim was to determine the current trend of endourology in the management of upper urinary tract calculi in Africa reference centres. We conducted an online multiple-choice questionnaire survey involving 46 centres from 27 countries using a structured well-designed Google Form (®) questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed to the head of service through their emails. The questions collected demographic data about the centre, the epidemiology of urolithiasis, diagnostic means and management of upper urolithiasis, especially access to endourology procedures and their practices...
January 12, 2024: Urolithiasis
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Miloud Chakit, Aziz Aqira, Abdelhalem Mesfioui
Bladder lithiasis is common in developing countries. It has become rare in industrialized countries and exceptional in the absence of associated lower tract pathology. usually caused by urinary tract infections, urethral obstruction or the presence of intravesical foreign bodies. Open cystolithotomy was performed on a 45-year-old patient with lower abdominal pain, moderate dysuria, pollakiuria, nocturia, and hematuria for a long time. A stone of 12 × 8cm in size and approximately 620 grams in weight was removed...
March 2024: Radiology Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vasco Quaresma, Francisca Magalhães, Lorenzo Marconi, João Lima, Manuel Lopes, Ana-Marta Ferreira, Pedro Nunes, Arnaldo Figueiredo
To the Editor, Upper urinary tract obstruction (UUTO) is a common scenario in clinical practice, and it is caused by a variety of diseases. Lithiasis, tumours and strictures are some of the principal aetiologies. Multiple factors may influence both the need for decompression of the obstructed collecting system and the urgency of procedure...
December 29, 2023: Archivio Italiano di Urologia, Andrologia
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Rosa María Gras Martínez, Marta Diranzo García, Ariana Álvarez Barrera, Miguel Beltrán Puig, Fernando Martínez Martínez, Emilio López Alcina
Patients with chronic diarrhoea or ileostomies suffer from electrolyte and urinary disorders and are prone to developing uric acid or calcium oxalate stones. Evidence is lacking regarding the management of uric acid stones in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. We present the case of a male patient with Crohn's disease and carrying an ileostomy. He was diagnosed with uric acid urolithiasis (stone size of 11 mm located in the left pyeloureteral junction) after presenting to the emergency room during an episode of left renal colic...
December 2023: Archivos Españoles de Urología
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Matyas Ebel, Alena Jahodova, Jaroslav Jerabek
INTRODUCTION: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is an inner ear disorder with a heterogeneous etiology, often linked to preceding infections, head injuries, or vestibular neuronitis. While it is commonly observed in the elderly, its occurrence in the pediatric population is rare. To our knowledge, there have been no reported cases of BPPV in patients younger than 5 years. CASE PRESENTATION: A 4.5-month-old female infant was admitted with episodes of paroxysmal nystagmus...
2024: Case Reports in Neurology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrej Nikolovski, Shqipe Misimi, Nadica Draskacheva, Nimetula Limani
Pyonephrosis is a serious condition that can lead to kidney dysfunction, loss of the organ, and even fatal end due to its complications. The underlying etiologic factors include lithiasis, recurrent urinary infections, ureter stricture, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, malignancy, and retroperitoneal fibrosis. One of the rare possible complications of pyonephrosis is a retroperitoneal rupture with spontaneous communication to the abdomen causing secondary peritonitis. We present such a case which is the first video-documented report of the peritoneal rupture site within the abdominal cavity...
January 4, 2024: Clinical Nephrology
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F Zanchelli, A Giudicissi, L Neri, V Sgarlato, P F Bruno, M Ruggeri, S Signorotti, D Vetrano, A Buscaroli
Mutations in the 24-hydroxylase gene CYP24A1 have been recognized as causes of childhood idiopathic hypercalcemia (IIH), a rare disease (incidence <1:1,000,000 live births) characterized by increased vitamin D sensitivity, with symptomatic severe hypercalcemia. IIH was first described in Great Britain two years after the start of a program of vitamin D supplementation in milk for the prevention of rickets, manifesting in about 200 children with severe hypercalcemia, dehydration, growth failure, weight loss, muscle hypotonia, and nephrocalcinosis...
December 22, 2023: Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia: Organo Ufficiale Della Società Italiana di Nefrologia
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REVIEW
R Kachkoul, G B Touimi, G El Mouhri, R El Habbani, M Mohim, A Lahrichi
Urolithiasis is defined as a disease diagnosed by the presence of one or more stones in the urinary tract. It is one of the oldest and most widespread diseases known to man, their discovery and characterisation chronology began with the civilisation's history. This pathology has a multifactorial aetiology, very frequent worldwide with geographic and racial variation, their prevalence is increasing in lockstep with socioeconomic development. In fact, this disorder affects between 2 and 20% of the population, with an approximate recurrence rate of 30% to 50% in 5 years...
December 2023: Malaysian Journal of Pathology
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Iulian Filipov, Corina Marilena Cristache, Mihai Săndulescu
INTRODUCTION: Salivary gland lithiasis is one of the most frequent causes of sialadenitis. We report the case of a patient who presented multiple episodes of subangulomandibular tumefaction, until salivary lithiasis was finally identified as the underlying condition and resolved through a minimally invasive approach. CASE REPORT: A 43-year-old male patient presented with a history of 12 episodes of recurring one-sided subangulomandibular tumefaction over the course of the past 3 years...
September 2023: Germs
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